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Romeo And Juliet's Death

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Romeo & Juliet Most people know Shakespeare for his famous play, Romeo and Juliet in which is a tragic story about two decedents from ongoing feuding noble families. In this play, the two lovers (Romeo and Juliet) meet causing more disturbance between the two families which lead to Romeo and Juliet’s tragic death. Their deaths are caused by three main characters, Tybalt, Mercutio, and Friar Lawrence by inducing more disruption than they could handle. To start off, Tybalt (Juliet’s cousin) is one of the main instigators to the tragic death because he is the first to start a feud with Romeo. In act 1, scene 5, lines 50-60, Tybalt is at the party where Romeo first meets Juliet when he …show more content…

Instead of allowing his cousin to talk to whoever she wants Tybalt however will not allow her to talk to their enemy family (a Montague). Besides being the first to notice the romantic couple Tybalt is also the most violent and now wants Romeo dead. Also, in act 2, scene 4, lines 7-9 Benvolio (Romeo’s cousin) says, “Tybalt the kinsman to old Capulet, hath sent a letter to his father’s house.” In this letter Tybalt shares the Montagues that he wants to dual against Romeo. This now shows that Tybalt will not let the romantic lovers get off his mind and that even in act 2 he still wants to kill Romeo. Tybalt is only leading to Romeo’s death as well as trying to be the one to kill him. Unfortunately for Tybalt he does not kill Romeo but, at the dual Tybalt kills Mercutio (Romeo’s best friend) which sets off Romeo causing him to kill Tybalt. Romeo now has to run off into another town. This loses his communication with his priest, who sent him a letter to say they were faking Juliet’s death in order to protect him. When he finds out she is ‘dead’ he loses all faith in life and kills …show more content…

During the party, act 1 scene 4, Mercutio tries to get Romeo to go dance on the party floor. During this time Romeo spots Juliet, only now leading the whole story onward. If Mercutio didn’t get Romeo to go dance and meet Juliet they would have never been married and would have never died. Although Mercutio managed to play another big art in act 3 scene 1 lines 60-65 is when Mercutio gets killed. Since Romeo is very loyal to his best friend Mercutio he now fights back against Tybalt an ends up killing him. Which now again leads Romeo to leave the city to only come back to find Juliet ‘dead’ so in depression he kills himself, when Juliet wakes up she is also extremely sad and find no point in life and kills herself. Mercutio plays the biggest part of the Romeo and Juliet tragedy because if it wasn’t for him Romeo and Juliet would have not met and there wouldn’t have been a Romeo and

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